Kindness Opportunities

Various - See Description

Ushers/Greeters Collection Counters Lectors (especially for the 5pm Sunday Mass) Altar Servers Youth and Adult Choir Members Consolation Committee (Funeral Planning & Bereavement) Hospitality Ministry (Monthly Coffee Hour)

125 Eagle St., Albany

Patrick Buonacore, Patrick.Buonacore@rcda.org

Various roles

These sites prepare hundreds of tax returns each season, so we're always looking for more volunteers, and not just to be tax preparers. Volunteers can also help us in front desk roles, signing clients in and chaperoning them to tax preparers, which is just as important as tax preparing.

During Tax Season: - Catholic Charities Albany, 40 North Main Ave, Albany, on Sundays, 9-1pm - Catholic Central School, 347 Old Loudon Rd, in Latham, Thursdays 8:30am-12:00pm - Hudson Valley Community College, Fridays, 1-4pm

Volunteers are needed for the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program on behalf of United Way Greater Capital Region in Albany. VITA prepares free tax returns for low income clients, saving them a lot of money in tax prep fees. Catholic Charities Albany runs a few VITA sites in the area: -One at Catholic Charities Albany, 40 North Main Ave, Albany, on Sundays, 9-1pm -One at Catholic Central School, 347 Old Loudon Rd, in Latham, Thursdays 8:30am-12:00pm -One at Hudson Valley Community College, Fridays, 1-4pm These sites prepare hundreds of tax returns each season, so we're always looking for more volunteers, and not just to be tax preparers. Volunteers can also help us in front desk roles, signing clients in and chaperoning them to tax preparers, which is just as important as tax preparing. For tax preparer volunteers, I provide training in the form of pre-recorded videos that go over all the tax law and tax software topics. Total viewing time is about 6 hours, but you can watch at your own pace. Prior tax experience is not necessary, as I conduct the trainings assuming the audience has no tax background. To be a tax preparer, you have to take a few online ethics exams and a tax exam, but my training videos go over all of the topics on the exams. We're not doing taxes now since we're post-tax season, but anyone interested can still contact me at andrew@unitedwaygcr.org, and around the first week of December, i'll start sending them the training videos; the videos have to be updated each year to reflect the new tax exams that come out. Volunteers should be ready to volunteer starting late January.

Andrew Kochian, VITA Coordinator, andrew@unitedwaygcr.org

General maintenance

Albany Diocesan Cemeteries welcomes all efforts to support our cemeteries and the families we serve. Volunteers could help with general cemetery maintenance such as raking, trimming, picking up sticks and branches, and decoration cleanups.

Various locations

Various and on going

Albany Diocesan Cemeteries welcomes all efforts to support our cemeteries and the families we serve. Volunteers could help with general cemetery maintenance such as raking, trimming, picking up sticks and branches, and decoration cleanups. Our Director of Education and Program Development holds gravestone cleaning workshops during which volunteers would learn how to clean gravestones using a non-toxic solution and soft bristle brushes, while discussing the different types of stones and gravestone symbolism used since the early 1800s. Let’s work together and show our respect for the dearly departed resting our cemeteries.

Please call 518-350-7679 or email Kelly@ADCemeteries.org.

Family Promise Ministry of St. Madeleine Sophie & St. Gabriel’s: Assist with activities for our host site to local homeless families admitted to the Family Promise Program. Volunteers are always needed during host weeks for meal preparation, interacting with the families, staying overnight, and much, much more. Contact: Anna Hartz 518 810-7918 or garnet.computer@gmail.com.

3040 Hamburg St. Schenectady, NY 12303